Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.

I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.